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Understanding Nursing Research Reading and Using Research in Practice

by: Macnee, Carol L.

Understanding Nursing Research Reading and Using Research in Practice

by: Macnee, Carol L.

ISBN 13:
9780781742719
ISBN 10:
0781742714
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/08/2003
Publisher: LWW
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Summary

Unique in its full-color design and reader-friendly conversational tone, this text links understanding of nursing research directly with evidence-based practice. The text begins with the results of the research and explains the steps of the research process to answer key questions about how the conclusions were reached, how the study was done, who was in the study, and why it was done that way. Distinguished by icons, qualitative and quantitative research are integrated throughout the text. Each chapter includes clinical vignettes and highlighted key concepts and ends with an out-of-class exercise referencing the clinical vignette and stimulating critical thinking for the next chapter. A Connection Website features student study activities(connection.LWW.com/go/macnee).

Using Nursing Research in Practice

(16)

Introduction

(1)

Questions for Patient Care

(9)

Published Abstract: What Would You Conclude?

(1)

Systematic Reviews in Evidence-Based Practice

(3)

Components and Language of Research Reports

(24)

Components of Published Research Reports

(12)

Research Reports and the Research Process

(8)

Published Report--What Did You Conclude?

(2)

Discussions and Conclusions

(15)

What Is the Answer to My Question? What Did the Study Conclude?

The End of a Research Report--Discussions and Conclusions

(1)

Discussions

(5)

Conclusions

(4)

Common Errors in Research Reports

(2)

Published Reports--What Would You Conclude?

(2)

Descriptive Results

(22)

Why Did the Authors Reach Their Conclusion--What Did They Actually Find?

Differentiating Description From Inference

(2)

Understanding the Language of Results Sections

(14)

Connecting Results That Describe to Conclusions

(2)

Common Errors in the Reports of Descriptive Results

(1)

Published Report--What Would You Conclude?

(2)

Inferential Results

(24)

Why Did the Authors Reach Their Conclusion--What Did They Actually Find?

The Purpose of Inferential Statistics

(2)

Probability and Significance

(3)

Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics

(1)

Bivariate and Multivariate Tests

(10)

Hypothesis Testing

(1)

In-Class Study Data

(1)

Connecting Inferential Statistical Results to Conclusions

(2)

Common Errors in Results Sections

(1)

Published Report--What Would You Conclude?

(2)

Samples

101

(24)

To What Types of Patients Do These Research Conclusions Apply--Who Was in the Study?

Samples Versus Populations

102

(9)

Differences in Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling

111

(3)

Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Sampling Approaches

114

(2)

Sample Size

116

(3)

Common Errors in Reports of Samples

119

(1)

Connecting Sampling to the Study Results and Conclusions

120

(1)

Published Reports--Have You Changed Your Mind?

121

(4)

Sampling Errors and Ethics--What Can Go Wrong?

125

(21)

Informed Consent

126

(9)

Problems With the Sampling Process

135

(3)

Problems With Sampling Outcomes

138

(3)

Common Errors in the Reports of Sampling

141

(1)

Published Reports--What Do They Say About Consent and the Sampling Process?

142

(4)

Data Collection Methods

146

(33)

How Were Those People Studied--Why Was the Study Done That Way?

Revisiting Study Variables

147

(8)

Methods for Constructing the Meaning of Variables in Qualitative Research

155

(2)

Methods to Measure Variables in Quantitative Research

157

(6)

Errors in Data Collection in Qualitative Research

163

(3)

Errors in Data Collection in Quantitative Research

166

(8)

Common Errors in Written Reports of Data Collection Methods

174

(1)

Connecting Data Collection Methods to Sampling, Results, and Discussion/Conclusion

175

(1)

Published Reports--Would You Use These Studies in Clinical Practice?

176

(3)

Research Designs: Planning the Study

179

(32)

How Were Those People Studied--Why Was the Study Done That Way?

Research Designs: Why Are They Important?

180

(9)

Qualitative Research Designs

189

(6)

Quantitative Research Designs

195

(7)

How Can One Get the Wrong Design for the Right Question?

202

(4)

Common Errors in Published Reports of Research Designs

206

(1)

Published Reports--Did Design Affect Your Conclusion?

207

(4)

Background and the Research Problem

211

(21)

Why Ask That Question? What Do We Already Know?

Sources of Problems for Research

212

(2)

Background Section of Research Reports

214

(5)

Literature Review Sections of Research Reports

219

(7)

Linking the Literature Review to the Study Design

226

(2)

Published Reports--Has the Case Been Made for the Research Study?

228

(1)

Common Errors in Reports of the Background and Literature Review

228

(4)

The Research Process

232

(21)

How Is the Research Process Related to a Published Research Report?

The Research Process

233

(12)

Research Process Contrasted to the Research Report

245

(2)

Factors That Affect the Research Process

247

(2)

Generating Knowledge Can Be Fun!

249

(1)

Published Reports--What Do You Conclude Now?

250

(3)

The Role of Research in Nursing

253

(20)

History of Nursing Research

254

(2)

Linking Theory, Education, and Practice With Research

256

(3)

Evidence-Based Practice: Pros and Cons

259

(1)

Quality Improvement: Framed With the Research Process

260

(2)

Where Are We Going? Roles of Nurses in Research

262

(1)

Finding Answers Through Research

263

(3)

Fictional Article: What Would You Conclude?

266

(7)

Appendix A-1: Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Children With Type I Diabetes

273

(9)

Appendix A-2: Fecal Incontinence in Hospitalized Patients Who Are Acutely III

282

(9)

Appendix A-3: Homeless Patients' Experience of Satisfaction With Care

291

(8)

Appendix A-4: Evaluating the Impact of Peer, Nurse Case-Managed, and Standard HIV Risk-Reduction Programs on Psychosocial and Health-Promoting Behavioral Outcomes Among Homeless Women

299

(13)

Appendix A-5: Mexican American Family Survival, Continuity, and Growth: The Parental Perspective

312

(10)

Appendix A-6: Factors Associated With Participation by Mexican Migrant Farmworkers in a Tuberculosis Screening Program

322

(11)

Appendix A-7: Trajectory of Certain Death at an Unknown Time: Children With Neurodegenerative Life-Threatening Illnesses

333

(10)

Appendix A-8: Distress and Growth Outcomes in Mothers of Medically Fragile Infants

343

(14)

Appendix A-9: Exercise in Heart Failure: A Synthesis of Current Research

357

(13)

Appendix A-10: Effect of Positioning on SvO2 in the Critically III Patient With a Low Ejection Fraction

370

(9)

Appendix B: Fictional Article: Demographic Characteristics as Predictors of Nursing Students' Choice of Type of Clinical Practice

379

(5)

Appendix C: Historical Analysis of Siderail Use in American Hospitals

384

(6)

Appendix D: Sample In-Class Data Collection Tool

390

(2)

Appendix E: In-Class Study Data for Practice Exercise in Chapter 5

392

(2)

Glossary

394

(12)

Index

406

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